AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Xeon E3-1225

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel Xeon E3 Family 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1996 points

4% slightly better overall score

1912 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

3480 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

1470 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

1411 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

63% significantly higher Blender score

25.19 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2142 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

647 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1641 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

561 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.1 GHz

55% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

735th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Xeon E3 Family

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2011 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Xeon E3-1225 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2500U beats the Xeon E3-1225 in overall performance. Despite this, the Xeon E3-1225 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Xeon E3-1225 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2500U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Xeon E3-1225 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.